Film Dictionary

Realistic French drama set in a Corsican prison.

Directed by Gilles Lellouche, a violent gangster drama starring Adèle Exarchopoulos.

Confusing French film directed by Bertrand Bonello and starring Léa Seydoux.

Conventional, but impressive, musical biopic about the legendary French singer. Great songs.

French film about two criminals hiding in a summer camp.

A very unusual drama about a murder in a small village in the south of France.

It's not a faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' famous novel, but it's still a very impressive film.

French thriller set in Canada. There is one huge and memorable surprise in this film, but some of its plot twists just aren't believable...

A French "Brassed Off" (1996).

French animated film about the Holocaust.

French drama about a young agricultural worker who has to take care of his younger sister.

Shocking film about young girls joining ISIS to marry Islamic fighters in Syria. Based on a true story.

Japanese documentary about a rape investigation involving an influential politician.

Beautiful, but very slow-moving film about three nurses in Mumbai. Alternately mesmerizing and boring, an uneven piece of cinematic ambiguit...

Shocking documentary about the destruction of a Palestinian village in the West Bank. Very powerful as a document of terrible human rights v...

Powerful documentary about the war in Ukraine.

An erotic horror film from Russia. Well-directed and acted.

Very sad film about a crime committed by the Brazilian dictatorship and its effects on a family across generations.

Pedro Almodovar's first English-language film, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. Superbly directed and acted.

Excellent and amusing film consisting entirely of found-footage assembled out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements. Brilliantly edited.

Excellent Danish drama set in Greenland.

Fascinating documentary about the repatriation of 26 royal treasures from France to Benin.

A strange journey across Asia. Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Depressing Danish drama about miserable people suffering from unhappiness.

Very silly Mexican comedy that tries very hard to be some kind of allegory of the tragic destiny of that country, but fails miserably.

A portrait of a British rock star, Robbie Williams, as a young ape.

The fifth "Mad Max" movie. A prequel to "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015). 

Profoundly depressing documentary about abuses and crimes committed in a residential school in British Columbia.

Set on Scotland's Orkney Islands, its a German/UK coproduction directed by Nora Fingscheidt ( "System Crasher" ) and starring ...

Another exciting animated film from the Aardman studio.

Another superlative performance from Florence Pugh in an excellent melodrama directed by John Crowley ("Brooklyn").

Seriously eccentric Australian animated film about very oddball characters.

A musical adaptation of Michel Tremblay's famous play. The film is available (to buy or rent) on YouTube here .

A Canadian thriller that tries so hard to make some sort of a statement about racism and sexism that it almost forgets about suspense and th...

Autobiographical comedy about a young Canadian filmmaker trying to make a short movie in Egypt.

A very peculiar Canadian black comedy about a revolt of Catholic schoolchildren against their religious teachers, set in a poor Montreal nei...